Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-23
GENEKALA

GENERAI-
AN insane priest stabbed the Bishop Of
Lamora at Morelia, Mex, recently. The
priest also stabbed young man who pro-
tected the Bishop. The wounds were not
necessarily fatal. The priest was secured.
AT Coventry, Eng, on the 18th, Wood
side of Philadelphia, lowered the bicycle
record for five miles, doing the distance in
14:2O1-5. He will challenge Howell to an
other contest.
Hail stones strangely shaped, pointed
and weighing over pound each, recently
fell near Adrianople, on the south side OF
the Balkan mountains, in Eastern Rou-
melia. The hail stones destroyed the har-
vest, killed many laborers and cattle in the
fields and pierced the roofs of houses like
bullets.
AT the sale of Lord Crawford's library
the other day the Mazarin, otherwise the
Gutenberg, Bible, the earliest book printed
with movable metal types, in its original
oak boards, was put up at 1850 and sold for
e., $50. Tyndalrs Pentateuch. in black let
ter, brought f255, and Tyndalps New Tesla
ment e23O. Miles Coverdale's Bible in
English, black letter, with wood cuts-the
first English Bible printed-brought e226.
RUSSIA has decided to increase the duties
ON cotton yarns and starch.
AN earthquake shock was felt in the de-
partment of La Vendee, France, on the
18th, frightening the people but doing no
damage
THE British jubilee celebration began on
the 18th with a banquet and a ball at
tended by the Prince of Wales and other
notables.
AN exhibition of food products was
opened in Amsterdam on the 18th.
SMALLPOX is reported epidemic in Cardiff,
Wales.
A DISASTROUS fire was reported raging in
Lulea, Sweden. on the Gulf of Bothnia. A
church, the town hall and many other build
ings along several streets were burned.
THE police of Berlin have prohibited the
circulation of the Chicago WOrknldn's Ga
zette.
MILE. GAUssEN, young woman, exc.
cuted at Amiens, France, recently for mat
ricide, was taken to the scaffold barefooted
and wearing white robe and a black veil.
AMERICAN missionaries report famine
in Asia Minor.
THE revolution which broke out in the
province of Tucuman, Argentine Republic,
was suppressed with the loss of 400 lives.
The Governor and chief officers of the prov
ince were taken prisoners.
YELLOW FEVER is reported at Guaymas
and other points on the western coast of
Mexico.
THE German Reichstag has passed to it's
by the committee.
JAMES G. BLAINE and party reached
Southampton, England, on the 10th, and
were met by Mr.. Pendleton, American Min
lister to Germany.
THE steamer Vidette of the Mobile g
New York steamship line went down June
Is in the Gulf of Mexico. The officers and
crew were saved. Loss, $780, 900.
THE Wholesale Liquor Dealers National
Association has made an assessment of ten
cents per barrel old rye and bourbon
whisky for the purpose of fighting prohibi-
ton in Texas.
THE French Government has declined to
take any steps at present looking to
Mediterranean canal or the deepening of
the Seine.
EIGHT hundred houses in Botuschany,
Roumania, have been destroyed by fire and
seven persons killed.
The Lord Mayor of London recently en-
tertained at banquet a large number of
notable actors and actresses. The affair
was much appreciated by the profession.
FIVE hundred men in the garrison at He
rat, Afghanistan, mutinied June 9, but
were defeated and captured after eighty
men had been killed.
RECENT advices from Honolulu stated
that revolution was imminent in Hawaii
and that King Kalakaua's life was threat
ened.
A SENSATION was recently caused in Paris
by the abduction of the Countess Mercedes
Martinez-Campos, young and wealthy
Cuban heiress. There were reports that
the lady was consenting party and the
abduction was engineered by her lover, who
desired to evade the marriage law.